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While the healthcare industry as a whole added 28,400 jobs last month, hospital jobs grew by just 1,200, according to the most recent seasonally adjusted numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Nurses who went on strike at Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) General Hospital Tuesday will be locked out of the hospital until Friday, according to a report by The Citizens' Report.

Workers at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane, Wash., and Valley Hospital in Spokane Valley, Wash., started a one-day strike at 6 a.m. Wednesday, according to a KHQ report.

In a policy switch, St. Luke's University Health Network in Bethlehem, Pa., will offer legally married same-sex couples benefits equal to those offered to married heterosexual employees, according to a report by The Morning Call.

Unionized nurses at three separate hospitals, all part of Franklin, Tenn.-based Community Health Systems, went on strike Tuesday, according to a Santa Cruz Sentinel report.

Even though the official four-day strike drew to a close Saturday night, nurses and technicians at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., have been barred from returning to work and some continue to picket, according to a WNPR…

Five northwestern Illinois hospitals have partnered with Weber State University in Ogden, Utah, to allow the hospitals' employees to take online classes and earn medical laboratory science degrees, according to a Rockford Register Star report.

In lieu of merit-based raises, Daytona Beach, Fla.-based Halifax Health plans to tie employee bonuses to the system's financial and patient satisfaction performance, according to a report by The Daytona Beach News-Journal.

Roughly 800 nurses and technicians from Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Conn., began a strike this morning, according to a report from The Day.

A strike planned for Dec. 4 at Regional Hospital of Scranton (Pa.) has been cancelled after hospital and union officials reached a contract agreement, according to a report by The Times-Tribune.